2021 Festival du nouveau cinéma explained
The 2021 edition of the Festival du nouveau cinéma, the 50th edition in the event's history, took place from October 6 to 17, 2021 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.[1] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec, it was staged as a hybrid event, with a mixture of in-person and online screenings; although the festival officially concluded on October 17, the online platform remained open until October 31.[2]
The festival opened with the film Bootlegger by Caroline Monnet, and closed with Félix Dufour-Laperrière's film Archipelago (Archipel).[3] Marking the 50th anniversary of the festival, Bootlegger was also paired with 50 temps, a short documentary film about the festival by Luc Bourdon.[4]
Awards
Award winners were announced on October 18 at the conclusion of the festival.[2]
| Award | Film | Filmmaker |
|---|
| National Competition, Grand Prize | Night Raiders | Danis Goulet |
| National Competition, Prix de la diffusion Québécor | The Noise of Engines (Le Bruit des moteurs) | Philippe Grégoire |
| National Competition, Prix de la diffusion Québécor Honorable Mention | The White Fortress (Tabija) | Igor Drljaca |
| International Competition, Grand Prize | Great Freedom (Große Freiheit) | |
| International Competition, Prix de l’innovation Daniel Langlois | The Crossing (La Traversée) | Florence Miailhe |
| International Competition, Prix de l’innovation Daniel Langlois Honorable Mention | Taste (Vi) | Lê Bào |
| International Competition, Best Acting Performance | Moon, 66 Questions (Selini, 66 erotiseis) | Sofia Kokkali |
| FIPRESCI International Critics Prize | Damascus Dreams | Émilie Serri |
| Eurimages Audentia Award | The Crossing (La Traversée) | Florence Miailhe |
| New Alchemists Prize | Esqui | Manque La Banca |
| New Alchemists Prize Honorable Mention | The Child of Plomo (El Niño del Plomo) | Daniel Dávila |
| Panorama Prize | Gallant Indies (Les Indes Galantes) | Philippe Béziat |
| Temps 0 Public Prize | Some Like It Rare (Barbaque) | Fabrice Éboué |
| Vortex | Gaspar Noé |
| P'tits Loups | Dans la nature | Marcel Barelli |
| FNC Explore Panorama Prize | In the Mist | Chou Tung-Yen |
| FNC Explore Horizon Prize | Marco and Polo Go Round | Benjamin Steiger Levine |
| FNC Explore Horizon Prize Honorable Mention | Goliath: Playing with Reality | Barry Gene Murphy, May Abdalla |
| National Competition, Short Film | In the Jam Jar | Colin Nixon |
| National Competition, Short Film Public Prize |
| International Competition, Short Film | A Present Light (Luz de Presença) | Diogo Costa Amarante |
| International Competition, Short Film Honorable Mention | My Uncle Tudor (Nanu Tudor) | Olga Lucovnicova |
| New Alchemists, Animated Short Film | Love, Dad (Mily tati) | Diana Cam Van Nguyen |
| New Alchemists, National Dada Prize | Boobs (Lolos) | Marie Valade |
| New Alchemists, International Dada Prize | Happy Valley | Simon Liu |
| RPCÉ Grand Prize | Roots Home | Audrey Rainville |
| RCPÉ Honorable Mentions | Project Human Revival | Yuqian Zhang |
| Université de Sisyphe | Étienne Pouy |
| Pitch Première Oeuvre | Adieu Minette | Sarra El Abed |
| Pitch Première Oeuvre Special Mention | Home of the Flying Moons | Victoria Catherine Chan |
| Nouveau Marché | Bells of Kabul | Chabname Zariab |
| Nouveau Marché Special Mentions | Mexico 1986 | César Diaz |
| Motherhood | Meryam Joobeur |
| Jury Prize, Virtual Reality | Fight Back VR | Céline Tricart |
| Future Rites | Sandra Rodriguez, Alexander Whitley | |
Official selections
International Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| The Crossing | La Traversée | Florence Miailhe | France, Germany, Czech Republic |
| District Terminal | Bardia Yadegari, Ehsan Mirhosseini | Iran, Germany |
| Great Freedom | Große Freiheit | | Austria, Germany |
| In the Mirror | Spogulis | Laila Pakalnina | Latvia, Lithuania |
| Miguel's War | | Germany, Lebanon, Spain |
| Moon, 66 Questions | Selini, 66 erotiseis | Jacqueline Lentzou | France, Greece |
| Passion | Maja Borg | Sweden, Spain |
| The Pink Cloud | A Nuvem Rosa | Iuli Gerbase | Brazil |
| Taste | VỊ | Lê Bảo | Vietnam, Singapore, France, Thailand, Germany, Taiwan |
| What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | | Germany, Georgia | |
National Competition
International Panorama
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| 1970 | Tomasz Wolski | Poland |
| Bliss | Glück | Henrika Kull | Germany |
| Celts | Kelti | Milica Tomović | Serbia |
| Compartment No. 6 | Hytti nro 6 | | Finland, Estonia, Germany, Russia |
| The Fam | La Mif | Fred Baillif | Switzerland |
| Faya Dayi | Jessica Beshir | United States, Ethiopia, Qatar |
| Gagarine | Gagarin | Fanny Liatard, Jérémy Trouilh | France |
| Gallant Indies | Les Indes Galantes | Philippe Béziat | France |
| The Girl and the Spider | Das Mädchen und die Spinne | Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland |
| Hit the Road | Jadde Khaki | Panah Panahi | Iran |
| Mr. Bachmann and His Class | Herr Bachmann und Seine Classe | Maria Speth | Germany |
| Unclenching the Fists | Razzhimaya kulaki | | Russia |
| The Velvet Queen | La Panthère des neiges | | France |
| Venus by Water | Shui Bian Wei Na Si | Lin Wang | China |
| Wood and Water | Jonas Bak | Germany, France | |
The New Alchemists (Les Nouveaux alchimistes)
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| The Child of Plomo | El Niño del Plomo | Daniel Dávila | Chile |
| Come Here | | Thailand |
| The Edge of Daybreak | Phayasohk phiyohkyam | Taiki Sakpisit | Thailand, Australia |
| The Fisherman's Daughter | Tzarevna Scaling | | Russia |
| Letters to a Young Traveller | Lettres à un jeune voyageur | | Canada |
| The Penultimate | Den Næstsidste | Jonas Kærup Hjort | Denmark |
| Ski | Esquí | Manque La Banca | Argentina, Brazil |
| Ste. Anne | | Canada |
| Virgin Blue | Bu yao zai jian a, Yu hua tang | Niu Xiaoyu | China | |
The Essentials (Les Incontournables)
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| Ahed's Knee | Haberek | | Israel, France, Germany |
| Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | | Romania |
| Days | Rìzi | | Taiwan |
| Dune | | United States |
| Earwig | | United Kingdom, Belgium, France |
| The Hand of God | È stata la mano di Dio | | Italy |
| A Hero | Qahremaan | | Iran, France |
| In Front of Your Face | dangsin eolgul ap-eseo | | South Korea |
| Introduction | Inteurodeoksyeon | | South Korea |
| Memoria | | Thailand |
| Parallel Mothers | Madres paralelas | | Spain |
| Paris, 13th District | Les Olympiades | | France |
| The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia |
| Red Rocket | | United States |
| Reflection | Vidblysk | | Ukraine |
| The Star | | Israel, United States |
| Tralala | | France |
| Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Gūzen to Sōzō | | Japan |
| The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | | Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden | |
Temps 0
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| After Blue | Paradis sale | | France |
| The Amusement Park | | United States |
| Asmodeus | Éric Falardeau | Canada |
| Bloody Oranges | Oranges sanguines | Jean-Christophe Meurisse | France |
| Bound | Jean-Armand Bougrelle | Japan |
| Dead Flash | | France |
| Extraneous Matter | Kenichi Ugana | Japan |
| For a Fistful of Fries | Poulet frites | Yves Hinant, Jean Libon | France, Belgium |
| Fou de Bassan | | France |
| Freakscene: The Story of Dinosaur Jr. | Philipp Reichenheim | Germany, United States |
| Hiruko the Goblin | Yōkai Hantā: Hiruko | | Japan |
| Irréversible | | France |
| The Last Temptation of the Belgians | La Dernière tentation des Belges | | Belgium |
| Lux Æterna | | France |
| Music Hole | David Mutzenmacher, Gaetan Liekens | Belgium |
| North Shinjuku 2055 | | Japan |
| Saloum | | Senegal, France |
| Some Like It Rare | Barbaque | Fabrice Éboué | France |
| Taxidermize Me | Taxidermisez-moi | | France |
| Those Who Care | Debout les femmes ! | François Ruffin, Gilles Perret | France |
| Vortex | | France |
| Zeria | Harry Cleven | Belgium | |
Special Presentations
International Competition for Short Films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| After a Room | Naomi Pacifique | United Kingdom, Netherlands, Switzerland |
| Atér | Marie Fages | France |
| Dihya | Lucia Martinez Garcia | Switzerland |
| Fata Morgana | Nitzan Rozen | Israel |
| Hotel Royal | Salomé Lamas | Portugal |
| How to Die Young in Manila | Petersen Vargas | Philippines |
| Inherent | Nicolai G.H. Johansen | France |
| Jesus Egon Christus | Saša Vajda, David Vajda | Germany |
| Lemongrass Girl | Pom Bunsermvicha | Thailand |
| Let's Do This Again Sometime | Petrus van Staden | South Africa, Spain |
| The Men Who Wait | Les Attendants | Truong Minh Quý | France, Singapore |
| Motorcyclist’s Happiness Won’t Fit Into His Suit | Al motociclista no le cabe la felicidad en el traje | Gabriel Herrera | Mexico |
| My Uncle Tudor | Nanu Tudor | Olga Lucovnicova | Belgium, Hungary, Portugal, Moldova |
| Neon Phantom | Fantasma Neon | Leonardo Martinelli | Brazil |
| New Abnormal | Pid Pokati Mai | Sorayos Prapapan | Thailand, South Korea, Singapore |
| On Solid Ground | Über Wasser | Jela Hasler | Switzerland |
| The Parents' Room | Diego Marcon | Italy |
| Potted Palm Trees | Topfpalmen | Rosa Friedrich | Germany |
| A Present Light | Luz de Presença | Diogo Costa Amarante | Portugal |
| Sandstorm | Mulaqat | Seemab Gul | Pakistan, United Kingdom |
| Sunrise in My Mind | Tngaireah knong chet | Danech San | Cambodia |
| Sycorax | Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro | Spain, Portugal |
| Techno, Mama | Saulius Baradinskas | Lithuania |
| Widow & Orphan | Hurenkind und Schusterjunge | Niklas Pollmann | Austria | |
National Competition for Short Films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Province |
|---|
| Abuela | Rebeca Ortiz | Ontario |
| BàBà | Dorothy Sing Zhang | Ontario |
| Between Realities Along the Edge of Time | Jessica Huras | Ontario |
| Big Brother | Grand frère | | Quebec |
| Bump | Maziyar Khatam | Ontario |
| Celle qui reste | Alex B. Martin | Quebec |
| Defund | | Ontario |
| Dear Mr. Dudley | Morgan Tams | British Columbia |
| Deep Blue | Fond bleu | Franie-Éléonore Bernier | Quebec |
| Fanmi | | Quebec |
| Fuckin' Coffin | Cercueil, tabarnak! | Loïc Darses | Quebec |
| The Horses | Liz Cairns | British Columbia |
| In the Jam Jar | Colin Nixon | Quebec |
| Joutel | | Quebec |
| Louise from 9 to 5 | Louise de 9 à 5 | | Quebec |
| Nalujuk Night | | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| OK | Virginie Nolin | Quebec |
| Ousmane | | Quebec |
| Perfecting the Art of Longing | | Quebec |
| Personals | Sasha Argirov | British Columbia |
| Resonance | Résonance | Maxime-Claude L'Écuyer | Quebec |
| River Boy Blues | Jerome Yoo | British Columbia |
| See You Garbage! | Au plaisir les ordures! | Romain Dumont | Quebec |
| Tibbits Hill | | Quebec |
| Tigress | Maya Bastian | Ontario |
| Together | | Ontario |
| Twelve Hours | | Ontario |
| A Void | Dominique van Olm | Ontario | |
Special Presentations Short Films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|
| Ataguttaaluk: A Life to Live | | Canada |
| Auto Portrait / Self Portrait Post Partum | Louise Bourque | Canada |
| Barcelona Burning | Barcelona de Foc | | Canada |
| Benjamin, Benny, Ben | | Canada |
| A Blue Room | Une chambre bleue | Tomasz Siwinski | France |
| La Cage | Marc Paradis | Canada |
| Délivre-nous du mal | Marc Paradis | Canada |
| Foam | Écume | Omar Elhamy | Canada |
| From Roots to Leaves | Melissa Simon | Canada |
| Hitchhiking | Frank Vitale | Canada |
| L'Incident Jones | Marc Paradis | Canada |
| Inuktitut Dialects in the 21st Century | Ulivia Uviluk | Canada |
| Islands | Les Îles | | France |
| Kuujjuaq | Sammy Gadbois | Canada |
| Letter to a Lover | Lettre à un amant | Marc Paradis | Canada |
| Little Brother | Petit frère | | Canada |
| Oh What a Wonderful Feeling | | Canada |
| Réminiscences Carnivores | Marc Paradis | Canada |
| Selva | Sofía Quirós Ubeda | Costa Rica, Argentina, Chile |
| Shooting Star | Comme une comète | | Canada |
| Le soleil brille pour tout le monde mais les hommes préfèrent les blondes | | Canada |
| Système des beaux-arts | Daniel Dion | Canada |
| The Tesla World Light | | Canada |
| Vice, vertu et vice-versa | Manon Labrecque | Canada |
| A Way of Life | Dorothy Mesher | Canada | |
The New Alchemists, Short Films
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| 3XShapes of Home | Elisabeth Brun | Norway |
| An Accumulation of Our Aftermaths | Solomon Nagler | Canada |
| Anxious Body | Yoriko Mizushiri | Japan |
| Anthologie 2020 | Michael Yaroshevsky, Glauco Bermudez, Erin Weisgerber, Olivier Godin, Simran Dewan, Isabelle Stachtchenko, Matthew Wolkow, Miryam Charles, Jessica Lee Gagné, Van Royko | Canada |
| Boobs | Lolos | Marie Valade | Canada |
| The Capacity for Adequate Anger | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany |
| The Coast | Sohrab Hura | India |
| Constrain | Contraindre | Antoine Fontaine, Galdric Fleury | France |
| The Detection of Faint Companions | Sandro Aguilar | Portugal |
| Dust Bath | | Canada |
| earthearthearth | Daïchi Saïto | Canada |
| Eidolon | Mike Rollo | Canada |
| First Time (The Time for All But Sunset: Violet) | Nicolaas Schmidt | Germany |
| Fleeting: Here & There | Gilnaz Arzpeyma | Canada |
| The Guy on the Bed | | Canada |
| The Hangman at Home | Le Bourreau chez lui | | Denmark, France, Canada |
| Happy Valley | Simon Liu | Hong Kong |
| Heat | Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger | Austria |
| Los Huesos | Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña | Chile |
| I Am Not | Julien Bouthillier | Canada |
| I Gotta Look Good for the Apocalypse | Ayce Kartal | France |
| A Lack of Clarity | Stefan Kruse Jørgensen | Denmark |
| Love, Dad | Mily tati | | France |
| Moon River | Misha Horacek | Canada |
| Notes from the Periphery | Tulapop Saenjaroen | Thailand, United Kingdom |
| One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean | Yuyan Wang | France |
| Portage Place Mall (With Love) | Ryan Steel | Canada |
| Scum Mutation | Ov . | France |
| Skinned | | Canada |
| Sometimes a Little Sin Is Good for the Soul | Alex Beriault | Canada, Germany |
| Song for the New World | Chanson pour le nouveau monde | | Canada |
| The Sunset Special | Nicolas Gebbe | Germany |
| There Is, Indeed, the Unspeakable | Es gibt allerdings Unaussprechliches | Marzieh Emadi, Sina Sadaat | Austria |
| They Dance With Their Heads | Ils dansent avec leurs têtes | | Canada |
| Thinner Than Two Ten-Thousandths of a Millimetre | Dünner als zwei Zehntausendstel eines Millimeters | Gregor Eldarb | Austria |
| Train Again | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria |
| Tunable Mimoid | Vladimir Todorovic | Australia |
| Vadim on a Walk | Sasha Svirsky | Russia |
| La Vie Heureuse | Amélie Hardy | Canada |
| We'll Find You When the Sun Goes Black | Anouk De Clercq | Belgium, Norway | |
RPCÉ Canadian Student Short Film Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Province |
|---|
| All I Am Is Now | Patrick Custo-Blanch | Quebec |
| The Architect | L'Architecte | Mathieu Lorain Dignard | Quebec |
| The Awakening of the Ape | L'Éveil du singe | Philippe Besner | Quebec |
| A Chaos Filled with Poetry | Un chaos rempli de poésie | Daphné Cambronne | Quebec |
| Dors-tu? | Nadia Louis-Desmarchais | Quebec |
| Father Like Son | Anna Kuelken | Alberta |
| Life on the Move | La Vie sur la route | Jack Belhumeur | Alberta |
| Lifetime Loser | Perdant à vie | Yan Olivier | Quebec |
| The Morlock | A.P. Bergeron | Quebec |
| Nature morte | Julia Martel | Quebec |
| Paris, Ontario | Arnaud Weissenburger | Ontario |
| Project Human Revival | Yuqian Zhang | British Columbia |
| Roots Home | Audrey Rainville | Quebec |
| Souvenirs fragmentés | David Bianchetti | Quebec |
| Starting Out | Bruno Vompean | Ontario |
| The Static in My Skin | Emily Pickering | Alberta |
| L'Université de Sisyphe | Étienne Pouy | Quebec |
| Utopia | Jean-Félix Rioux | Quebec |
| La Ville fantôme | Marc-André Côté | Quebec | |
Student Short Films Not in Competition
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Province |
|---|
| 20:12 | Kevin Champagne-Lessard | Canada |
| La Cour des mirages | | Canada |
| Cousins | Michal Haggiag | Israel |
| Empty Spaces | Ben Ziv | Israel |
| La Femme nue | Francis Lacelle | Canada |
| Le Froid | Natalia Duguay | Canada |
| Her Dance | Bar Cohen | Israel |
| Motel Paradise | Virgina Tangvald | Canada |
| Ouverture | Philippe Rioux | Canada |
| Wood | Max Dufaud | Canada | |
P'tits loups
Short film program of animation for children.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| Altaï | François Lagorce, Jean Lagorce | France |
| Bemol | Oana Lacroix | Switzerland |
| Cat and Bird | Saka sy vorona | Franka Sachse | Germany |
| Colin Pané | Paul Bouchart, Stéphanie Hu, Clément Opinel, Juliette Danesi, Camille Fruit | France |
| Colza | Victor Chagniot, Camille Broutin, Matthieu Daures, Victoria de Millo Gregory, Maxime Jouniot, Jade Khoo | France |
| Comment j'ai vaincu ma peur des humains | Hélène Ducrocq | France |
| Croc Marmottes | Benjamin Botella | France |
| The Displeasure | La Grogne | | Canada |
| Épreuves du matin | Masa Avramovic | France |
| The Finger of Death | Le Doigt de la mort | Mazarine Miloudi, Mélanie Levaux, Pauline Mahieu, Oriane Gros, Sébastien Pagès | France |
| The Frolic | Jhao Yi Han | Taiwan |
| House of Memory | Sofia Rosales Arreola | Mexico |
| Humanatee | Sea Jin Park | South Korea, United States |
| I Am a Pebble | Je suis un caillou | Melanie Berteraut Platon, Yasmine Bresson, Leo Coulombier, Nicolas Grondin, Maxime Le Chapelain, Louise Massé | France |
| In Nature | Dans la nature | Marcel Barelli | Switzerland |
| Itchy the Camel: Tennis Ball | Anders Beer, Pierre-Hughes Dallaire | Canada |
| Jean-Michel et les histoire interdites | Mathieu Auvray | France |
| Just for the Record | Vojin Vasovic | Canada, Serbia |
| Kiko and the Animals | Kiko et les animaux | Yawen Zheng | France, Switzerland |
| Lazare fait bien les choses | Thomas Appelman | France |
| Marguerite | Jasmine Dubé | Canada |
| Mega Mega Mega Mega Fête | Collective | Belgium |
| Mum Is Pouring Rain | Maman pleut des cordes | Hugo de Faucompret | France |
| Orgiastic Hyper-Plastic | Paul Bush | Denmark, United Kingdom |
| Patouille and the Parachute Seeds | Patouille, des graines en parachute | Inès Bernard-Espina, Mélody Boulissière, Clémentine Campos | France |
| Le Rire | Capucine Gougelet | France |
| A Splash in a Mud | Temps de cochon | Emmanuelle Gorgiard | France |
| A Stone in the Shoe | Un caillou dans la chaussure | Éric Montchaud | France, Switzerland |
| Trona Pinnacles | Mathilde Parquet | France |
| Vanille | Guillaume Lorin | France | |
FNC Explore
Virtual reality projects.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|
| Bystanding: The Feingold Syndrome | Nim Shapira, Roi Lev | Israel, Canada, Germany |
| End of Night | David Adler | Denmark, France |
| Far Away from Far Away | Bruce Alcock, Jeremy Mendes | Canada |
| Goliath: Playing with Reality | May Abdalla, Barry Gene Murphy | United Kingdom, France |
| Icarus | | Canada |
| In the Mist | Chou Tung-Yen | Taiwan |
| Marco & Polo Go Round | Benjamin Steiger Levine | Canada, Belgium |
| Madrid Noir | James A. Castillo | France, United Kingdom |
| Mindfield | Vincent Ladouceur | Canada |
| Myriad, Where We Connect | Michael Grotenhoff, Christian Zipfel | Germany, Austria |
| Once Upon a Sea | Adi Lavy | Israel, Canada |
| Otherly | Jessica Murwin, Grace An, Joanne Lam, Mirusha Yogarajah | Canada |
| Our Common Home | Notre habitat commun | Daniel Iregui | Canada |
| The Sick Rose | Huang Yun-Hsien, Tang Zhi-Zhong | Taiwan | |
Notes and References
- Marc Cassivi, "Contre vents et marées". La Presse, October 1, 2021.
- https://ctvm.info/le-50e-festival-du-nouveau-cinema-devoile-son-palmares-et-se-poursuit-en-ligne-jusquau-31-octobre-2021/ "Le 50e Festival du nouveau cinéma dévoile son palmarès et se poursuit en ligne jusqu’au 31 octobre 2021"
- Léa Carrier, "Bootlegger et Archipel en ouverture et clôture". La Presse, August 23, 2021.
- Gabriel Sigler, "FNC 2021 lineup: The Power of the Dog, Freakscene – The Story of Dinosaur Jr., Red Rocket, Night Raiders". Bad Feeling, September 28, 2021.
